Accessible Housing Register

The London Accessible Housing Register (AHR) project, launched April 2006 at the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) Disability Capital Conference. The GLA commissioned a team of consultants, led by Home Connections to develop the key elements of the AHR.The Accessible Housing Register provides access information for social housing properties. It is a way of storing and displaying information about whether a property has level access, has steps or has any adaptations such a level access shower or stair-lift. It features:

Standard Property Categorisation Framework

The AHR property category framework was created in line with NROSH (National Register of Social Housing) to help social landlords to collect access information for the NROSH data fields. Some of the category names have been changed to make them more accessible to the public – and in addition a new category has been added for the London AHR called Step Free.

Standard Eligibility Criteria for Accessible Housing

In addition to the property categories a set of standard eligibility criteria were designed in order to help social landlords prioritise housing applicants for accessible properties and assess the needs of disabled applicants using the Social Model